Babylon Tales | Nathan Weaver, author

I talked about seasonal depression on this blog recently, and I think I'll keep talking about it this season. I, like many, feel a deep drop-off during the cold season. I suffer with Bipolar 2 and anxiety, so this stuff is pretty normal. As in, it happens. So over the past few years I've been trying to look at seasonal depression as a normal routine that comes around every year and stack the cards against it. 
Today I'm gonna list off and talk about five different things one can try during this trying time. Some of these are obvious and some maybe less so. I hope you get something out of any of them, as I have. Always, do what works for you and your mental health.
1. UV light I knew about this one for a long time, but always kinda scoffed at it. I mean, I didn't completely disregard it, I just didn't think I could take it seriously. You understand, I'm sure. But last year, I decided to go in on a UV light and spend 30 minutes in front of it. While I was sittin…

Hello all! Part of the reason I wanted to migrate from WordPress was that I wanted an option that gave me... options. And part of that was with comments. I was generally frustrated with WordPress comments as they were very limiting. People either had to sign-in with WordPress or be a guest. I had even reached out to WordPress about adding other options for comments, and got a nice reply. But that was like 2 years ago and nothing had changed. Same could be said of other things I wanted to see simplified.

But anyway, I'm not here to complain about WordPress.com, which I generally enjoyed. Instead, I'm gonna point out the comments section here.

I started out with Blogger comments at first, pretty much certain I'd change them, and when for some reason I wasn't getting notifications for new comments that ushered in the change.

I looked around some, but ultimately went with Disqus, which I've used a lot in the past, and generally find to be a solid solution.

Pros:
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Recently Dean Foods had to declare bankruptcy. And as a general rule, I usually worry about the little guys and gals who were relying on those businesses for their livelihood. But the headlines were out of control and I couldn't help but screenshot a few as they came across my phone. Enjoy the ridiculous "those darn millennial" style takes on why Dean Foods had to declare bankruptcy.

As you may know, we've been busting away at Night Aggressions, both writing/editing and publishing at the Emerald Dragon blog each Friday. And since that's my current WIP, as they say, it's a real shame that a story idea I'd had a while back crept back into my head and won't go away.

"WRITE ME! WRITE ME!" She demands.

You ever have that happen during your writing? Annoying isn't it? Sometimes I'll write like a single scene or a couple of scenes/chapters just to appease. Or maybe just jot down as many notes as I can for later. Lately I've been pretty good about ignoring the urge to write something out of turn, but man oh man... that urge is so strong today.

Probably too late to start tonight, but I'll probably cram out a wee scene or chapter in the coming days. I may just post it here, to tease, and see what ya'll think.

So seriously though, you ever struggle with dueling ideas? How do you battle it? Do you have a will of stone? Are you …